The celiac disease
By: Ken Needles
The sprue (gluten, contained in the products of wheat, rye and barley flour) general known as celiac disease, is a “ hidden†disease with permanent and alarming increase.
“If 500.000 celiac diseased are living in Italy todayâ€, explains Maria Teresa Bardella, gastroenterologist and responsible of the Centre of the Providence and Diagnosis of the Celiac Disease in the Policlinic of Milan, “so, only 70.000 of them know to have this trouble.â€
The celiac disease is genetically determined, but is not exactly a genetic disease: in case of celiac diseased parents, there is a 10-30% probability of a celiac diseased child. The certain diagnosis is often identifiable through a biopsy in the gastroscopy and is necessary in case of a patient’s reaction to bread and pasta with diarrhea, stomach ache and weariness, loss of weight, anemia, head ache and dermatitis.
The last years present giant steps forward regarding the Xeliac-test-diagnosis, but also in the sphere of the still studied systems for block the toxic reaction of the gluten in the celiac diseased.
The unique cure possible at the moment is the specific diet, so, the food producers as well as the qualified employees of the hospitality industry have to be sensitized to the importance to signal the merest quantity of gluten in the food.
The actual research in Italy is running at the Gaslini in Genoa and at the University of Verona (which furthermore studies the protection factors of the Yakult probiotic), where they are working on a possible vaccine after having ascertained the cause of the virus infection (Rotavirus).
The protection mechanism of the intestine, which counteracts the gluten-conditioned autoimmune inflammations, however, is researched at the Telethon of San Raffaele in Milan, at the Moscati Hospital in Avellino and at the Pediatrics Federico II of Napoli. This research is of benefit to the Scientific Institute of the Cnr Alimentation. In a few years we will probably know, if the Interleuchina 10 may be the solution of this problem. In the opinion of the research scientists of the Institute of Norwich (GB), the Interluchina 12 protects from allergies and therefore, why not, maybe for symptoms of intolerance, too. Currently, at the University of Padua, however, the effect of a chitinase, discovered in the year 2001, is going to be observed attentively.
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